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Re:Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles by 7777332215 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:20AM (#48489343)
They are used to exploit known vulns to get arbitrary read write, calls. For cheating. Both freebsd kernel exploits and browser exploits.
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Re:Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles by Rohansi on Thursday June 11, 2026 @11:18AM (#48491547)
Weird to see this is still a thing on the latest console generation. Xbox runs software under HyperV which should make exploitation difficult
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Re:Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles by ammar2 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:48PM (#48493807)
The PS5 also runs apps (games/browser) under a hypervisor. There was a hypervisor escape though coupled with webkit as an entrypoint:

* https://ps5dev.github.io/ps5-wiki/hypervisor

* https://github.com/PS5Dev/Byepervisor

* https://github.com/PS5Dev/PS5-UMTX-Jailbreak/blob/main/READM...

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Re:Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles by embedding-shape on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:23AM (#48489377)
Also for rooting the console, which makes it way easier to run cracked games. I think I saw a browser being used for getting root access first with PS3 unless I misremember.
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